The men who "run the place" wearing matching outfits from the tops of their John Deere hats to the bottoms of their brown leather shoes. (Yeah, okay, their blue shirts are different shades, but nonetheless....)

Nina Sasser (playing the part of Carol Merrill) poses with the FNCA's Carmen Miranda fruit compote earrings. These delightful gems are in the Sales Table Auction each year. The person with the winning bid wins the rights to them for a year but must bring them back the following summer. Over the past several decades, the Carmen Miranda earrings have raised well over $1,000 for the Assembly!

When Officer Alex is the Sales Table Auction auctioneer, he doesn't mess around! Here's the long view and the close up of him trying to entice Nancy Little with a fine piece of jewelry. (By the way, these two photos were taken nearly simultaneously --- you can't see it, but Trevor's little digital camera is in his right hand in the upper photo.)

Several Flames and young adults were amused to discover this old sign in the pantry that lists the old waitress schedule from the pre-1980 days when the female Flames waited tables and the male Flames did the the dishes and all the Flames ate together in the kitchen ½ hour before meals. The girls had to report 15 minutes early to set the tables. Wonder what the penalty was for being late?

(By the way, there's another sign of the same vintage and handwriting that shows the proper way to arrange a place setting.)

This is only fun or funny if you know her name is Nancy Little. This photo was taken at the "mountain finder" on top of Jockey Cap Mountain in Fryeburg ME. (And the concept of Jockey Cap being called a mountain is only fun or funny if you know it only takes 10 minutes to get to the top!)

For decades, Colgate Searle has been working on a miniature village at camp, quietly creating all the pieces during lectures in the lecture hall. When he sets up "Colgate- ville" for a few days each year, it's always a big sensation!

The village has grown from just a few modest buildings to include town hall, church, blacksmith shop, covered bridge, sawmill, army tent, and other delights. The latest addition is a pig sty complete with hand-carved pigs.

One corner of the Claxton Cabin is just close enough to the modem in the Main Building to pick up the Assembly's Wifi --- it just happens that that corner is in the bathroom! So here's Beki Greenwood hard at work cheerfully doing her daily telecommute not in a computer lab but in the Claxton Computer Lav.NOTE: Just a few years after this, we highly amped up our Wifi and it now reaches the whole camp, including the entire Claxton Cabin.

For years, before the old rope swing came down, it was traditional among the younger generation to traipse down to the river in their Sunday Best after church and do fully-clothed "dry runs" on the rope swing before lunch. It also was not at all unusual for someone to do a dry run during regular swimming hours, like this guy here (who we think is either Evan Palazzo or Kenny Condon).

Carol Rienstra production of "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and the Fiery Furnace" (Daniel 3) on the front lawn (note the old flagpole). On the left it's Sean Phinney, Becca Cunningham, Shawn Dolley on the throne as King Nebuchadnezzar, and Richard Mayer. Over on the right side are Shelley Dolley, Kathryn (Katie Rienstra) Pruiett, Tonya Emery, Marcy Emery, and Vicki Walter.

Theme: Alice in Wonderland, featuring: Amy Cronlund (now Sandidge) as the March Hare, David L. Rienstra as Alice, Leone Richardson (now Dyer) as the Mad Hatter, Greg Gilman as the Dormouse, and Sarah Dole as the Cheshire Cat.

Initiation of new Flames in 1969. Front row (l to r) Trevor as the Statue of Liberty, Gus Abato in drag, Jane Perry, ??. Directly behind ?? is Laura Woofenden (Grams) as a frog in the green t-shirt. The rest are all unknown at this point.

The original plans for the Assembly (which have hung in the Dole Wing for decades) included grass tennis courts on the back field. Here's a foursome playing sometime in the 1920's or 1930's. You may not be be able to tell from the picture at this size, but Route 302 going by just beyond the rows of small pine trees beyond the tennis court is a dirt road!